Classes Cancelled 30 Sept/5 Oct.

If you are lucky, this announcement is catching you prior to your coming into campus.  If not, I am sorry for your inconvenience.  I came in with every intention of teaching today, and I made it up through noon, my first couple of classes and half my office hours; however, I'm just not up to teaching this afternoon.  The kidney infection wins, and you need to work on your revision for your first formal history/English paper on your own.  Remember, the final papers are due to be posted to your blogs on Monday, 4 October at Midnight.

Physical copies are due in class Thursday, 7 October.  Physical copies are left justified, double spaced, twelve point type, with one inch margins.  In the physical copy, there should be no extra spacing between paragraphs.  The start of paragraphs are indicated by indenting five spaces.   On each physical copy, make sure to begin the first page with your name, HIS 111/ENG 111, "Doctors Brandon and de Mayo," and the date, all on their own line and left justified; then, you double space, enter your title. The title of your essay is center justified, and you double space prior to beginning your first paragraph.  Block quotes, that is, quotes longer than four lines, should be placed in a block paragraph, and the whole paragraph is indented by five lines on the left.

Again blog copies are to be posted by Monday, 4 Oct. at midnight.  Blog copies should be single spaced within paragraphs and double spaced between paragraphs.  Since the extra space denotes the start of a paragraph, you don't need to indent the first line.   Since we know the classes the blog post is for, there's no need to list the class, and the same is true for the date, since your post is time stamped or Tom's or my name.  The title is the title of the post.  Block quotes should use the quotation feature, which can be accessed by highlighting the quote and hitting the large quotation marks in the blogger editing window.

Note that both classes are cancelled for 30 Sept and 5 Oct.  Today's classes are cancelled because of my illness and the fact that Tom has already taught both his sections for the week.  The hope I'd be well enough to teach today didn't pan out.  The classes on 5 Oct. are cancelled because it is Convocation for the college, and all classes are cancelled.

For those who might be concerned, I am feeling better, and I should be well by next week; however, the kidney infection has turned out to be fairly serious.  I just missed spending time in hospital, but I'm now a couple of days into the antibiotics, and the bed rest and cranberry juice seem to be doing their trick.  I'm just not as strong as I thought I was and could only make it through noon today, so there's no need to worry.

Steve